more dicking on starbucks. don't know WHY this seems to be something of a reoccurring theme- those boys and girls in green do a bang up job of keeping the general public all jazzed up on dangerously caffeinated/sugary beverages!

derived from the fact that coffee houses have become the bastion of the wireless office. huzzarr for the wonders of the communication age! also, why does everything look 1000x more pimp on brown paper?

aaaaaaand that's that for the coffee cups. eugh, if somebody acctually knew how to use photo shop, i would have done something about the vpl (er, that's visible paper line) blighting this, uh, series with it's ta-ta-tattyness.

another part of the cup series.

i really don't know what the hell i had against starbucks back last year when i got the idea for this... in fact, i don't think there were any bad feelings at all.

... i think it was all just an excuse to draw kelptomanic mermaids. in hind-sight, the flow of that tentecal sucks balls. needs to be waaaay more fluid.... although acctually i think it might work with the gaps between the line up of cups.

OH WELL.

did you know that starbucks is named after the first mate in moby dick? initially, the company wanted to go with pequod, abham's doomed ship, but pr didn't warm to that idea.

#THE MORE YOU KNOW#

also, may i recomend you all go out and watch simon schama's bbc series 'power of art'. i've pretty much blew through 5 out of 8 hours of it yesterday while i was working and it is GOOD stuff. ok, so the guy may be a little forthright with his intentions but it's a really interesting examination of the selected artists and the production on it is BEAUTIFUL.

this stuff's as old as methusela but it's practically the only thing left over from my foundation that's halfway decent enough to go in the portfolio. t'is part of the out come from a camberwell project which had us observing a space for a week.

take a wild guess where i went.

sssssooo tired. got a tone of stuff i need to get done by 4 though thanks to spilling black ink every where. god, that stuff's really indelible.

uuuugh.

lol, so emo.

but yeah, kinda sorta preliminary work for a crappy little sculpture i made (watch this space) based around Orestes little run in with the furies. for more on that, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(mythology) or http://threepennyorchestra.blogspot.com/2009/02/oh-those-crazy-greeks.html and oh dear, i think i just fragged the text formatting on this post.

did you know that coffee is a wonderful artistic medium? it's true!

#THE MORE YOU KNOW!#